24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Margaret Atwood und Claudia Rankine: Burning Questions

Claudia Rankine, Margaret Atwood
Claudia Rankine , Margaret Atwood

With »Burning Questions«, Margaret Atwood, »The outstanding novelist of our age« [Sunday Times], recently presented a volume of essays from 2004 to 2021 – a period that included the financial crisis, the Trump era, and the pandemic. With her characteristic brilliant intellect and wry humor, she questions the phenomena of our time. In conversation with poet and essayist Claudia Rankine, she discusses the literary possibilities of the essay genre.

Language: English
Interpreters: Lilian Astrid Geese, Astrid Fischer

Sold out. Further events with Margaret Atwood in our program:
Margaret Atwood und Jan Wagner: Die Füchsin
Poetry Night with Margaret Atwood, Paul Muldoon, Haris Vlavianos, Jay Bernard